Sacred Beauty Quotes

As a white candle / In a holy place, / So is the beauty / Of an aged face

Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.

Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that.

All things of beauty can speak to us of God, and I'm very happy to listen to and be inspired by people of every religious background.

Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face.

Study nature as the countenance of God.

We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter and force are unmeaning unless related to something infinitely personal, whose nature we have discovered, in some measure, in human love, in the greatness of the good, in the martyrdom of heroic souls, in the ineffable beauty of nature, which can never be a mere physical fact nor anything but an expression of personality.

With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious life--Christ was the only man from whom she might expect embrace in return.

The ornament of beauty, Shakespeare wrote, is suspect. And he was right. But beauty itself, unadorned and unaffected, is sacred, I think, worthy of our awe and our loyalty.

I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at. I know the beauty of our Lord by it.

In the material world, where everything is valued, when you commit yourself to God, beauty and love, it can be mistaken for extravagance.

To feel the grace of God in a painting of the dear, quiet commonness of a domestic interior, or in a landscape, seascape, cityscape, trains us to feel the grace of God in the thing itself in situ.

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.

The beauty of holiness is that which the grave, that consumes all other beauty, cannot touch, or do any damage to.

Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.

If the Lord counts the natural beauty of the body inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty, rejecting utterly as He does all falsehood?

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

If God made poets for anything, it was to keep alive the traditions of the pure, the holy, and the beautiful.

When I see Tiffany windows in churches across the United States, I get a sense of spiritual upliftment from that.

This visible world is wonderfully to be delighted in, and highly to be esteemed, because it is the theatre of God's righteous Kingdom.